Do Modern Sleep Interventions Increase Sleep? A New Meta-Analysis Says “No”
A new meta-analysis examines if sleep training methods to improve sleep actually work to, well, improve sleep. Guess what? They don't.
A new meta-analysis examines if sleep training methods to improve sleep actually work to, well, improve sleep. Guess what? They don't.
The common suggestion is akin to earlier sleep training with families insisting on children staying in bed, coming up with hall passes, and so on. But what if the problem isn’t behavioural? What if it’s actually biological? More specifically, physiological?
One article suggests a possible link between persistent bedsharing and worse mental health outcomes for children. Does it really say that? What does this data tell us and should parents be concerned? (Hint: no concern needed.)
Why do our kids lie and what can we do to avoid it happening too much?
Contrary to the idea of sleep being a skill, it's really the idea of independent sleep that is the skill to be taught because it counters human biology.
Most people believe that they have to "teach" their infant to sleep, but the entire idea of sleep as a skill to be taught counters the fact that sleep is actually a biological process.
We live in a society that has actively ignored that we are primates. This makes parenting so much harder, especially as our children hit the toddler years.
Most people think toddlers should be sleeping through the night and that any wakings reflect some fault of the parents. New research on toddler sleep suggests otherwise.
Lots of people believe that our toddlers need to sleep through the night for their development, but does new research actually support this?
New research suggests that extremely unsettled babies have a much higher risk of mental health problems in childhood. The question is now what we do with this, and I have a few ideas.